Question: What are Blue-collar Workers? Blue-collar workers refer to employees performing manual labor generally‚ their jobs entails physical labor‚ such as in a factory or workshop. Blue-collar work may involve skilled or unskilled‚ manufacturing‚ mining‚ construction‚ mechanical‚ maintenance‚ technical installation and many other types of physical work. A higher level academic education is often not required for many blue-collar jobs. However‚ certain fields may require specialized
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Well first off‚ what is a blue collar job or a blue collar employee? The first thing that may come to one’s minds is a person without a diploma working in a restaurant serving guests in hopes of earning their gratuity by the end of each guest’s meal. Meals in a fast food restaurant would not available if it were not for the blue collar workers working those IHOP or Chik-Fil-A equipment each day. Blue collar jobs are needed to maintain society in America. Life as Americans know it would be much different
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“Entering the Conversation” Mike Rose’s essay‚ “Entering the Conversation‚” questions the prevailing methods of teaching college level literacy to under-prepared students. The core courses for incoming freshmen “have traditionally served to exclude working-class people from the classroom. It doesn’t‚ of necessity have to be that way” (12). Rose is trying to prove that an education in the humanities does not have to be exclusive or elitist. Just because remedial students lack literacy skills
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Blue Collar Brilliance-Summary and Response The article “Blue- Collar Brilliance” of Mike Rose argues that path for obtaining Intelligence doesn’t depend on what type of work we do either white collar or blue collar. Important point is to use your intelligence to perform best. He focuses on the point that intelligence in blue collar worker is due to experience‚ the power of body and brain to work together to solve a certain problem which white collar worker gain through formal education. “Solution
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The Brilliance in “Blue-Collar Brilliance” As a whole‚ society sometimes makes many preconceived notions about people‚ groups and their actions or life choices. These accusations are wrong. Author Mike Rose reiterates this point in his article “Blue-Collar Brilliance” saying‚ “If we think that whole categories of people-identified by class or occupation-are not that bright‚ then we reinforce social separations and cripple our ability to talk across cultural divides.”(Pg254)‚ he’s essentially
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In “Blue Collar Brilliance”‚ the author‚ Mike Rose‚ expressed multiple reasons why a blue-collar worker is intelligent and capable to participate in a Democratic society (Web). He challenged the bias of today’s world that lower-class jobs that do not require a degree mean the workers are not smart. He started out sharing the experiences of his mother and uncle who worked blue-collar jobs and showed various skills that took time and intelligence to develop. He continues his essay sharing his findings
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Nicholas Caiello Professor Michael O’Connor English 103 17 September 2013 Is Education A Necessity? I agree that….(mention mike rose) Mike Rose has a very intellectual opinion regarding education. Education is something that we all go through at some point in our lives. Some do not finish high school; some go on to college to obtain a Bachelors Degree or Masters Degree. But is this something that is a necessity? Or is this something that we just assume because of our society and
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Blue-collar jobs are considered jobs where workers work with their hands and do manual labor. Many citizens consider blue-collar jobs to house lower skilled workers ‚or workers who have a lower education and assume they are less intelligent. The workers may not attend college or even finish high school. Keeping that in mind‚ blue-collar workers are not necessarily lazy. Blue-collar workers are more than they are given credit for. Workers in blue-collar jobs can be highly intelligent‚ hardworking
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who return to study to obtain a degree. Despite these stories however‚ many companies have been seeking employees to fill up positions for months to years. Many of these jobs have included machinist‚ welder‚ and many more in manufacturing‚ hence blue collar jobs. Now you may be thinking‚ how can companies not fill up position for manual labor? But with the pace of the advancement of technology in modern society‚ machinery has become more complicated and requires a higher skill cap to use compared to
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BLUE COLLAR BRILLANCE Are blue collar jobs less appreciated? Mike rose‚ thinks there are no fair share of recognition among people in the working class society. Rose was stressing his point to say that‚ in as much as the white collar job (workers) are perceived in the society as higher educated people it brings conflict among us. Also making the minimal jobs look less valuable and cripple our ability to talk across cultural divides. Blue collar jobs
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